{"id":1131,"date":"2010-09-22T12:11:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2010-09-22T12:11:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T16:11:06","slug":"fall-planted-garlic-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1131","title":{"rendered":"Fall Planted Garlic is Growing."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1132\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/growing-cloves.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1132\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1132\" title=\"Garlic is Growing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/growing-cloves.png\" alt=\"Garlic is Growing\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garlic is Growing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After planting some store purchased garlic a few weeks ago, I had some reservations about whether it would actually grow. The price\u00a0was far cheaper then\u00a0those\u00a0cloves listed in seed catalogs, so I thought it was worth a try. \u00a0I&#8217;m as delighted to see it grow as I was this spring when the first onion stalks arose out of the ground. It&#8217;s one thing to know the seeds will grow, and quite another to Actually See it Happen. There was a problem though&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1133\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/dangers-lurk.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1133\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1133\" title=\"Dangers Lurk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/dangers-lurk.png\" alt=\"Dangers Lurk\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dangers Lurk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Before releasing these scratching fiends, I placed protective wire around all of the plants in the garden which I hoped to harvest later. I didn&#8217;t think that about the garlic which I planted next to my walkway. The chickens have learned that I come up the walkway before feeding them at night, and they have been waiting for me the last few days. When I spotted one of them digging in my garlic bed, I knew I had more work ahead of me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1134\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/protection-from-pecking.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1134\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1134\" title=\"Protective Wire\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/protection-from-pecking.png\" alt=\"Protective Wire\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protective Wire<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I found some old wire, and covered the four tires that make up my garlic beds. I then placed some stakes in the ground to hold the wire in place.\u00a0 This should keep them away from the bulb of the plant, but I will need a new plan once the stalks grow taller then the wire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After planting some store purchased garlic a few weeks ago, I had some reservations about whether it would actually grow. The price\u00a0was far cheaper then\u00a0those\u00a0cloves listed in seed catalogs, so I thought it was worth a try. \u00a0I&#8217;m as delighted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,55],"tags":[700,300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}